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To: coug who wrote (23285)	7/8/2006 8:29:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541346

And so it flies in the face of all those, including those here, saying what an individual does does NOT matter. Coug, I don't recall anyone saying that. Did I miss something?

To: coug who wrote (23285)	7/10/2006 12:23:54 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541346

I do agree that individual small scale actions, at least if they become common, can have a noticeable effect. However I don't agree that the environmental situation of the earth is at all similar to the situation the Titanic was in. And if it was (if 10 years without massive changes would make a world wide major disaster from global warming inevitable), than I think that aluminum recycling, however useful it may be, would not amount to warning the captain, it would be close to (even if perhaps a bit more than) "rearranging the chairs". Perhaps it would be the same as warning the captain after it was to late to turn. I think maybe slowing down by 1/50th of knot before the iceberg was sighted might be a better analogy.